Clarification Site URL and Home

  • pal8

    (@pal8)


    10 years, 9 months ago

    I believe WordPress team should edit and clarify the following at http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL

    On the Settings->General screen in a single site installation of WordPress, there are two fields named “WordPress address (URL)” and “Site address (URL)”. These are also known as the “Home” and “Site URL” settings.

    The “Home” setting is the address you want people to type in their browser to reach your WordPress blog.
    The “Site URL” setting is the address where your WordPress core files reside.

    I’m about to change the site root and it’s a bit confusing to me. Must be even worse for someone who’s not a developer.

    Site URL is the domain URL, the address in the browser. The same as Home.

    The other should be called “WordPress directory” or “WordPress path”. Or if you insist using url call it “WordPress URL”.

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  • Thread Starter pal8

    (@pal8)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    Ok, think I understand it now. This is probably an old description. Nowadays most people use their WP as blog and cms.

    WP is the site. WP is not a blog tool installed in its own place anymore. This might help someone else. Forget what it says at “Changing The Site URL”. Forget “type in their browser”.

    If you installed WP in it’s own directory in your web root but want WP to be your root, be your site, without having to type yourdomain.com/wordpress to reach it. Then follow this.

    WordPress address (URL)

    You find this field under Options > General.

    This is the directory where you installed your WP. The so called core files. Most often …/wordpress. WordPress address is a truthful description. Most often it’s http://yourdomain.com/wordpress

    Be aware that if you install WP using a temporary address or url, given to you by your host and used before your domain is pointing to the server, you will have that address in the fields and must change that to the domain name when it works.

    Site Address (URL)

    You find this field under Options > General.

    Now this is what should be called “type in their browser”. This is your “home”. This is what people type in their url address to reach your site. This is your site address. E g http://www.yourdomain.com

    Then follow this instruction http://youtu.be/0wO54hYHYF4

    An alternative

    Often the host will say that your web root, on the server when logged in with ftp, is “www” or “html_public” or similar. When someone type http://www.yourdomain.com they come to that place. That’s web root.

    Web root is where you put your WP directory (most often). So you have it in http://www.yourdomain.com/wordpress.

    NOW. Sometimes you can also change, on the server settings, that your web root should be “www/wordpress” instead. When connecting a domain to your server it might ask you “ok, where should that domain point to, where is the site’s home, the directory”.

    IF you change this so your web root actually is the WP directory, then both fields “WordPress address” and “Site address” should be the same http://www.yourdomain.com

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